Collapse Movie

Theres nothing wrong with being prepared and buying as you go but please for the love of god don't go off the deep end and get into debt just because you need 5 pallets of ammo and a $10,000 security door, etc....Look at all those poor fools and doom-sayers that sold everything and moved into the middle of nowhere worrying about the world ending on Y2K.

Look at all those poor fools and doom-sayers that sold everything and moved into the middle of nowhere worrying about the world ending on Y2K

I have recovered quite nicely from that episode

Five pallets of ammo?

Hmmph.

Slacker.

I'm going to start calling your place the ammo dump.

Originally Posted by HvyMtl

Nice entertainment.

I guess people forget a few things... Peak Oil - ok, so? They have been fear mongering over oil since the first major embargo/ shortage in the early 70's. Got us lovely cars like the Pinto and Gremlin. Then the late 70's, and now within the past two years...
And yet, these 3 events were not due to lack of supply, but market and political effects. OPEC and oil speculators.

FYI: If oil dries up within the next 10-100+ years, there are alternatives. Coal, natural gas, wind, solar, bio, wood, etc. The only major difference? Well, we wont be zooming around in our Suburbans...

I guess people forget oil is not God.

But, hey, people like this make tons of money... by fear mongering.

Yeti, aren't they the snow version of Big Foot? Now if those two groups ever got out of hand...

I believe peak oil is a reality, we live in a world with limited resources and it is thought that oil extraction follows what’s called the Hubbert’s peak whether it be a well, field, region, or the entire world. Eventually demand will outstrip supply and we will find ourselves on the downward slope. It won’t take a complete loss of oil either, remember the high prices after Katrina which could be considered only a small interruption in supply.

I realize that there are other forms of energy but our society is very dependant upon oil in every aspect production, delivery, and consumption practically every good or service you use in your daily life was probably made possible by oil. You could even say that 5 out of 6 people currently living in the world owe their existence to oil. We simply don’t have the infrastructure in place to simply switch to another form of energy.

Originally Posted by Magiccarpetrides

Theres nothing wrong with being prepared and buying as you go but please for the love of god don't go off the deep end and get into debt just because you need 5 pallets of ammo and a $10,000 security door, etc....Look at all those poor fools and doom-sayers that sold everything and moved into the middle of nowhere worrying about the world ending on Y2K.

Now, now, I wouldn't call TN the middle nowhere.

Originally Posted by Mike.357

Oil fields once considered dry have oddly refilled with the stuff.

This phenomenon isn't that the oil fields were "dry" so to speak. As oil gets used up they pump the well with water and other things to force the oil out. This process is expensive. Texas still has oil, but oil prices have to be high enough to justify spending the money to get it out. The same issue is in effect when it comes to harvesting oil sands and oil shale. If we can discover a cost effective way to separate the oil from the rocks and sand we will have enough oil for years to come, not to mention hopefully the price of oil will rise just high enough for people to start seriously investing in alternative fuels, building charging stations for electric cars and upgrading the power grid.